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  Doaba Motors - The Home of Quality Pre-Owned Vehicals
Doaba Motors is in pre owned auto sales bussiness from last 10 years.
Doaba Motors provides you detailed vehicle history report from CARFAX free of charge.
Doaba Motors, 3275 Stevens Creek Blvd #319, San Jose, CA 95117.
www.doabamotors.com   (309 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - JALANDHAR PLUS
It may be a mirage of a better future or a distant dream, but the youth of Doaba are not hesitating to follow it despite the uncertainty that comes attached with it.
The trend to go and settle abroad is catching the fancy of youngsters here to such an extent that nearly 40 per cent of the total population of the youngsters have either already left for foreign countries—legally or illegally— or a large number of them waiting for the next available opportunity.
The driving force behind their fast flight from the Doaba region is unemployment and the dream of a “golden” future in foreign land, which hardly gets fulfilled.
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060106/jplus.htm   (891 words)

  
 Art & Literature
The educational institutions like, Doaba College K. A.V College B. D Arya College, S. College and Lyalpur Khalsa College for women and boys have had created the educationist and laureates.
The Jalandhar falls in Doaba region, comprising the districts Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala.
Doaba region is sided by the rivers Beas and Sutlej.
jalandhar.nic.in /html/history_culture_art_literature.htm   (3563 words)

  
 SSNews
Many are duped by travel agents; landing far away from the land of their dreams.
Doaba has been the NRI heartland of the state since long.
Doaba youths, mostly from villages, have for the past many years shown their inclination to go abroad, by any means, legal or illegal.
www.sikhsangat.org /publish/article_1224.shtml   (1166 words)

  
 Doaba Guerfel - SWG Wiki
The village, which took on the name Doaba Guerfel, was populated for only about half of each standard year with a variety of resort staff, ranging from cooks and cleaning crew to hunting guides and airspeeder pilots.
Due to the city's proximity to pristine forests and wilderness, the citizens of Doaba Guerfel are active environmentalists.
Nights in Doaba Guerfel are filled with sounds of music and celebration, and the town annually consumes more Corellian Ale than all of the neighboring cities combined.
www.atombender.de /swgwiki/index.php?title=Doaba_Guerfel&redirect=no   (419 words)

  
 Journeys into terrorism
He had no previous record of terrorist sympathies; indeed, many Doaba youth distanced themselves from the Khalistan movement to avoid police records that could jeopardise their prospects of emigrating legally, through marriage or through the sponsorship of relatives.
Perhaps as significant as the recruitment of Doaba immigrant youths is the direct involvement of British Sikh immigrants in terrorist activity in India.
The arrest of British citizen Gurnam Singh early in August 1997 in Ludhiana, and the recovery of 15 kg of RDX and high-technology 'A,B,C,D' electronic detonators from the car he was travelling in, illustrates the influence of revanchist groups abroad.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1418/14180250.htm   (2134 words)

  
 Gurdwara Pardesi Khalsa Dharmak Diwan:Gateway to Sikhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Diwan was founded Sikhs originating from the Doaba region of the Punjab.
Doaba, the land in the Punjab between the two rivers, the Sutlej and Bias.
Sometime in 1927, about fifty of these Sikhs from Doaba got together and banded themselves into an association.
www.allaboutsikhs.com /gurudwaras/gurud_127.htm   (163 words)

  
 Doaba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doaba is name of the region in Punjab (India) between the Satluj and Beas rivers.
The people of the region are known as Doabias.
The Punjabi dialect spoken in Doaba is known as Doabi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doaba   (121 words)

  
 Chamar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chamars of Doaba are rich and educated.
Due the influence of Sikhism and the preference of the British for Sikh soldiers, many Chamar Sikhs, were able to serve in the military and thus improve their social and economic status.
Chaudhary Jagjit Singh - A prominent Politician in the Doaba district of Punjab
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chamar   (663 words)

  
 The fatal lure of the West
As many as 166 of those who died were from Punjab, overwhelmingly from the affluent Doaba region between the Ravi and the Beas rivers.
The desperation of those in the Doaba region to go abroad illustrates the fact that civil society in the region, despite its affluence, has ceased to provide young people with a vision of what their future might be.
Frontline's interviews in Doaba, conducted after the U.S. raids, showed the illegal immigration road was open for traffic despite state intervention.
www.hindu.com /fline/fl1602/16020420.htm   (2370 words)

  
 Events: Punjab; RUN, GIRLS, RUN... AWAY!; Sept 7, 2003 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The relaxed silence of the parents of the five Jalandhar girls who went missing in London on August 12 is not a surprise to Punjabis in Doaba.
Nor is the state police ruffled, for it is common knowledge that the people of this region-the land between the rivers Beas and Sutlej-would do anything to settle abroad.
The sports and culture route became the more viable option for illegal emigrants after the infamous Malta boat tragedy of 1996, when a hundred youth from Doaba met their watery grave off Greece, as they were being ferried, illegally, to the land of their dreams.
www.the-week.com /23sep07/events11.htm   (621 words)

  
 Punjabi.net discussions chat forums
Hi folks it would be safe to say the areas between Jullundar (Doaba) and Ludhiana (Malwa) are basically the same.
The main differences are that Doaba was doing well...ahead of Malwa and Maja in farming long before......
Doaba means land between 2 rivers...hence Punjab means land between 5 rivers...3 of which are now in pakistan...(himachal and haryana and chandighar all used to be a part of punjab...but let's not go there...that's a entire post all in itself...)
punjabi.net /talk/messages/1/42751.html?995471440   (1674 words)

  
 Marquees, decorations, balloons and banners in Birmingham - Doaba Tent Hire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Doaba Tent Hire and Manufacture of Birmingham provide the complete marquee hire service along with balloons, dance floor, decorations and banners for weddings, birthdays and functions.
We have been established for fifteen years in Birmingham and work with the general public, small and large businesses and pubs throughout the West Midlands including Hansworth, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Cannock, Walsall and West Bromwich.
If you are planning an event or function in the Birmingham area Doaba Tent Hire and Manufacture can help with everything from decorations and banners to custom marquees and tents.
www.doaba.net   (222 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - JALANDHAR PLUS
The growing interest of the Badals in Doaba region is crystal clear from the fact that the SAD organised three major rallies at Kartarpur, Nadala and Jalandhar within a short span of about one month.
The newfound love of the SAD leadership for Doaba region of Punjab can be assessed from the fact that Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal has done two rounds of Mahilpur, a small township in Hoshiarpur district, within a short span of 45 days.
While over 45 per cent population of Doaba region, comprising about 25 Assembly seats, belongs to the Dalit category, the number of employees in all four Doaba districts of Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala, is also huge.
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060407/jal.htm   (2037 words)

  
 Punjab’s Dalit women: Between exclusion and control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Though as a community, they are underprivileged compared to the general population, a small but significant section among them, mainly in Doaba region, vie with the dominant groups.
Dalits, largely from Doaba region, have also migrated to Gulf countries.
In addition, their sense of self-respect has been shaped by the availability of cultural resources in the form of Ad-dharm movement and Sikhism in colonial period and Dera Sacha-Soda and Radha Saomi in the post-colonial period.
www.mahapunjab.org /articles/2004/04mehmi.html   (953 words)

  
 Tehelka - The People's Paper
The film centres on the sufi shrines of the Doaba, the part of Punjab that lies between the Sutlej and Beas.
It was among the emigrants from the Doaba that the Ghadr movement first flourished, it is in this region, close to Nawanshahr, that Bhagat Singh was born, and it is here where the dalits make up over one-third of the population that the movement that gave rise to the bsp began.
For him, the dispossession from land is at the heart of the dalit’s deprivation.
www.tehelka.com /story_main11.asp?filename=hub040905holdingup.asp   (536 words)

  
 Guru Har Rai - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
Was disturbed as a child by the suffering caused to plants when they were accidentally destroyed by his robe.
Once on the request of Dara Shikoh (the eldest son of emperor Shahjahan), Guru Sahib helped him to escape safely from the bloody hands of Aurangzebs armed forces during the war of succession.
Once Guru Sahib was coming back from the tour of Malwa and Doaba regions, Mohamad Yarbeg Khan, (son of Mukhlis Khan, who was killed by Guru Hargobind in a battle) attacked the kafla of Guru Sahib with the force of one thousand armed men.
www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Guru_Har_Rai   (1888 words)

  
 Society: Abandoned and angry; Nov 30. 2003, The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A social activist later told me that Doaba region had many such unfortunate young women.
The phenomenon is not confined to Doaba but has spread all over Punjab.
The most depressing revelation was this: young women were still walking to the NRI marriage trap despite countless stories of jilted women staring at their face.
www.the-week.com /23nov30/life1.htm   (1454 words)

  
 Lally Shahis School of Kabaddi, Adampur Doaba, Punjab, India
Lally Shahis School of Kabaddi, Adampur Doaba, Punjab, India
Pyara Marg Gali Sajna Di Adampur, Adampur Doaba.
If you are Lally Shahis School of Kabaddi alumni then just fill up the registration form and find out your long lost batchmates.
www.batchmates.com /institution/instdetails.asp?instcode=91197   (54 words)

  
 Welfare centres face staff shortage -DAWN - National; July 29, 2003
However, these centres have failed to serve the purpose as all of them are without required staff.
Only two female workers have been appointed to these centres — one each in Doaba and Thall — while the rest of the centres have no female staff and their posts are lying vacant.
Similarly, four male staffers are working as family welfare assistant in four centres, including Ibrahimzai, Hangu, Toghsrai and Darsamand, while the posts are lying vacant in other centres.
www.dawn.com /2003/07/29/nat15.htm   (276 words)

  
 Allahabad Trivani (Gomukh to Ganga Sagar, Virtual Tour with all Details)
The Doaba region, including Allahabad was controlled by several empires and dynasties in the ages to come.
The Akbar fort has an Ashokan pillar and some temples, and is largely a military barracks.
Gradually the other parts of Doaba and adjoining region in its west (including Delhi and Ajmer-Mewara regions) were won by the British.
www.liveindia.com /ganga/allahabad.html   (1706 words)

  
 Transporters block road -DAWN - National; 8 April 2005
HANGU, April 7: Drivers of public transport blocked main Kohat-Hangu road near Doaba to protest against firing on a passenger coach here on Thursday.
The protesters said that they were facing problems due to the prevailing insecurity on roads.
The traffic on the road was resumed after two hours when the SHO of Doaba police station assured the drivers that the culprits would be arrested.
www.dawn.com /2005/04/08/nat16.htm   (156 words)

  
 The Bhalla Clan of Sri Hargobindpur, Dist. Gurdaspur, Punjab, India
From Taran Taran, Guru Arjun Dev Ji went to Jullundur (Jalandhar) Doaba and raised a third town called Kartarpur and from Kartarpur he went to Lahore from there on traveled to banks of river Ravi and Beas on banks of Beas he built yet another town which he named after his son Hargobind, Gobindpura.
In Punjab he visited Kartarpur and made it as headquarter of Sikh Nation in Doaba.
He also visited several adjoining villages like Bara Pir, Mukerian and laid the foundation stone of Sri Hagobindpur town (the original name of this town was Gobindpura) near the river Beas in 1621.
www.bhallafamily.com /history.html   (715 words)

  
 Today in Sikh History :20th August :Gateway to Sikhism
Babbars call to plunder treasuries through the "Babbar Akali Doaba" newpaper.
==> BABBAR AKALI DOABA - newspaper was the organ of the Babbar Akalis and it effectively spread their message in the Doaba.
In all 15 issues were released from Aug. 20, 1922 to May 21, 1923.
allaboutsikhs.com /history/his0820.htm   (518 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Nearly 40 per cent of the addicts fall in the 15-25 age group.
?While derivatives of opium are the choice in Majha and Malwa, tranquillisers are the most favoured in Doaba,?
Village health personnel are said to be sources of drugs and intoxicants, while quacks, chemists and grocery shops act as conduits.
www.telegraphindia.com /1041124/asp/nation/story_4041778.asp   (391 words)

  
 Welcome to FreshPlaza
Equipped with crop gap certification by a Holland based company Food Cert, potato growers of Punjab, who were already catering to almost 80 per cent demand of potato seeds of the country, are all set to export their next crop to European countries.
As many as 55 potato growers of Doaba region of Punjab were awarded the certificate by the company today and they will cultivate the next crop as per the specification of the company to export their crop to the European Union, Raghbur Singh, President of the Potato Growers' Association of Punjab said.
Markfed has been appointed the State Nodal Agency for potato agricultural export zone (AEZ) and has taken initiatives to enhance productivity and quality as well as provide access to international markets including training to farmers on crop production and disbursement of freight subsidy to the farmers for out of state sales or exports, he added.
www.freshplaza.com /2006/07sep/2_in_potato.htm   (243 words)

  
 [Islam-Online- Top News]
JAMMU, India, June 4 (AFP)-Three Indian soldiers and four Muslims were killed Sunday in a gun battle in Indian Kashmir, an Indian army spokesman said.
Three soldiers died on the spot and one sustained bullet injuries," said the spokesman.
He said the troops had cordoned off Doaba Gali, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of the state winter capital Jammu, and a village in the Poonch district known for its militancy, the spokesperson said.
www.islamonline.net /IOL-English/dowalia/news-2000-June-05/topnews9.asp   (294 words)

  
 India Information >> Punjab >> Punjab Map
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The present Punjab is divided into three natural regions: The Mujha, The Doaba and the Malwa :-
The Doaba of Punjab is bounded by the Rivers Sutlej in the south and Beas in the north.
www.whereincity.com /india/punjab/map.php   (203 words)

  
 SUNDRI Part 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hari Singh sat down and began to listen, After the Bhog, he related all that he had heard from the two guards.
"Brother Balwant Singh and his sister are captives in Doaba, and will be forcibly converted to Islam on the coming Friday,’ he told them.
The Sikhs were outraged to hear this news.
www.sikh.net /publications/Sundri/Sundri07.htm   (602 words)

  
 Boston Restaurants - restaurant reviews and dining recommendations - Boston.com
Doaba kulfi ($3.95) looks unassuming, but the flavor is a star.
"Doaba is a village in Punjab from where the owner comes and it is famous for its milk products.
The owner's mother, Satwant, uses a special churner to make this ice cream," Devanand says.
www.boston.com /dining/globe_review/899   (696 words)

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